Paiges of Books

November first is tomorrow, and  that starts National Novel Writing month this si where writers will write a 50k word novel in the course of a month. I will be posting one or two of the best paragraphs I write each day, as well as what I accomplished that day,  It's to keep up with the blog, and because I'm curious as to what people will think of my novel. In the new year I hope to try and get this novel published, and in December I will go through first edits of the novel.    

Title: The Two of Us Fandom: The Flash(TV) Pairing: Westallen  (Iris West and Barry Allen)  “What even is this Iris, oh why did I say that you could make us dinner when we both know that we are more suited for takeout?” Barry said with a small laugh, but he knew that he was right neither of them were cut out for cooking anything. “It is spaghetti and meatballs, and at least you could taste it before you judge me and say it’s bad.” She also knew that neither of them were cut out for cooking, take out always.  

Carmilla Back in the spring of 2014 I never would have thought that the little novella that I read and fell in love with would ever become a web series, I read it for a lit class and I loved it so much that I didn’t want the book to end. My main reasoning for thinking this was that the novella was so short, only 86 pages of story and then some additional pages of illustrations and a glossary of terms ending at 93 pages. The book was published in 1871-72 and was written by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu is one of the earliest works of Vampire Fiction,  dating even before  Bram Stokers Dracula by 26 years. The novella like the web series follows Laura who lives with her father in a castle in   Styria with her wealthy widowed father, from Childhood Laura has lived in this secluded area, and she really doesn’t have that many friends or people to talk to. Twelve years later Laura’s father’s friend is supposed to bring his niece Bertha   Rheinfeldt to visit the two of them, but the niece mysteri

I am one that usually likes to read at least most of the books before going to see a  book to film adaptation, or a movie based on a book as usually I believe that in almost all cases the books are better than the films. There are some book to film adaptations that in my opinion miss the mark completely, for example the first Twilight film but I thought that they got better as the years went on.  Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children was one of those films that missed the mark on a few things, and I would like to start off by saying  what I feel like It missed the mark on, and then I will move onto what I feel was great about the adaptation.  The first thing that I felt it missed the mark on was the voice, yes I know that the characters were not the ages that they are in the book, but I don’t feel like you can blame anyone because    actors auditioned, and they had to go with the people that came in for the roles.  I don’t feel like the film fully mastered the voice that Ransom